§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many residents of each constituency are known to the CSA as(a) parents with care and (b) parents without care. [52124]
§ Malcolm WicksThe administration of the Child Support Agency is a matter for the Chief Executive, Mr. Doug Smith. He will write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Doug Smith to Mr. Andrew Turner dated 13 May 2002:
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in replying to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency promised a substantive reply by me.You ask, how many residents of each constituency are known to the CSA as (a) parents with care and (b) parents without care.We don't hold information on our systems in that format. I have obtained some information on the constituencies within which the address of parents with care falls by sampling our computer database. I have arranged for a document listed as: Number of Parents with Care held on the Child Support Computer System by Parliamentary Constituency at November 2001, to be placed within the Library. There will be a small degree of error because this is a 5 per cent. sample and the error will be more likely when the figures are less than 500.Unfortunately the information for non-resident parents is less reliable because for more of them we do not hold a full post code. I believe that broadly the national distribution of non-resident parents will be the same as that for parents with care.I hope this is helpful.